Joyce Ladner
American sociologist
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- Bachelors Psychology Tougaloo College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joyce Ann Ladner is an American civil rights activist, author, civil servant, and sociologist. Early life and education Ladner was born in Battles, Wayne County, Mississippi, on October 12, 1943, and grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She was raised with four brothers and four sisters. Ladner graduated high school in 1960 with her older sister, Dorie Ladner. She earned her B.A. in sociology in 1964 from Tougaloo College, before earning her Ph.D at Washington University in St. Louis in 1968. During college, Ladner and her sister Dorie organized civil rights protests alongside Medgar Evers and other students from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She and her sister were arrested and jailed for their activism. She told PBS of her activism in Mississippi:
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- Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman (1972) (461)
- The death of white sociology (1974) (205)
- Black Teenage Pregnancy: A Challenge to Educators. (1987) (37)
- Adolescence and poverty : challenge for the 1990s (1991) (27)
- Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Some Preliminary Findings. (1984) (25)
- Mixed families: Adopting across racial boundaries (1978) (21)
- Comprehensive Planning and Racism (1969) (13)
- Providing a Healthy Environment for Interracial Children. (1984) (12)
- Black Women Face The 21St Century: Major Issues and Problems (1986) (11)
- What black power’ means to Negroes in Mississippi (1967) (9)
- Hazard information needs and information seeking in French workers. (2013) (6)
- The New Urban Leaders (2001) (6)
- A New Civil Rights Agenda (2000) (5)
- "Black Power". A failure for racial integration--within the civil rights movement. (1968) (4)
- Tanzanian Women and Nation Building (1971) (4)
- The ties that bind (1998) (4)
- Adopting the Cross-Cultural Child (1982) (2)
- Mixed families: White parents and black children (1977) (2)
- Labeling Black Children: Social-Psychological Implications. (1975) (1)
- Black repreession in the Cities (1970) (0)
- Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success.Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. , Thomas D. Cook , Jacquelynne Eccles , Glen H. Elder, Jr. , Arnold Sameroff (2000) (0)
- Mixed Families: Adopting Across Racial Boundaries.@@@Transracial Adoption. (1978) (0)
- Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011-09-20. (2011) (0)
- Book Review:Black Life and Culture in the United States. Rhoda L. Goldstein (1972) (0)
- Teenage Pregnancy: The Implication for Black Americans (2020) (0)
- Black Writers' Views of America. (1979) (0)
- Not on Our Street: Community Attitudes to Mental Health Care. By M. J. Dear and S. M. Taylor. Vol. 9, Research in Planning and Design. London, England: Pion Ltd. (distributed by Methuen), 1982. 182 pp. $19.95 (1984) (0)
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